BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces have found more
than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on
Sunday.

Fifty bodies were found in a mass grave in central Iraq on
Sunday, a military source in the area said, and another team
said it had discovered more than 50 bodies in a grave south of
Baghdad on April 17.

The grave found on Sunday was in the village of al-Guba, 80
km north of Baghdad, in the troubled Diyala province, where al
Qaeda Sunni Arab militants have regrouped after being driven
out of other parts of the country.

Most of the bodies had their hands bound and gunshot wounds
in the head. Some were decomposed, according to the military
source, who declined to be named.

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A senior security spokesman in Baghdad, Major-General
Qassim Moussawi, said police and Iraqi military had uncovered
51 bodies in a grave on April 17 in Mahmudiya, a town 30 km
south of Baghdad.

"We received information from some citizens that there are
bodies in the al-Askari neighborhood in Mahmudiya. We searched
the neighborhood and found the bodies," Moussawi said.

He added that security forces had taken them to the morgue
of a local hospital and some families had already identified
the victims as their relatives.